Guto Harri is a Welsh broadcaster,writer and strategic communications consultant. He most recently served as Downing Street Director of Communications,having been appointed by Boris Johnson in February 2022.
Sir James Philip Duddridge,is a British politician and former banker. A member of the Conservative Party,he served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rochford and Southend East from 2005 to 2024. Duddridge previously held several ministerial positions under prime ministers David Cameron,Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.
Gary McKinnon is a Scottish systems administrator and hacker who was accused in 2002 of perpetrating the "biggest military computer hack of all time",although McKinnon himself states that he was merely looking for evidence of free energy suppression and a cover-up of UFO activity and other technologies potentially useful to the public. On 16 October 2012,after a series of legal proceedings in Britain,then Home Secretary Theresa May blocked extradition to the United States.
The prime minister's official spokesperson or alternatively prime minister's official spokesman/spokeswoman is a position in the United Kingdom's Civil Service,located in the Prime Minister's Office in 10 Downing Street and used by the British prime minister to convey information to the public. The prime minister's official spokesperson usually addresses a small group of press and media correspondents,known as lobby correspondents,each morning to deliver statements on current events on behalf of the prime minister.
"Enemies of the People" was the headline to an article by the political editor James Slack,published in the British newspaper Daily Mail on 4 November 2016. The headline and associated article were about the three judges who had ruled that the UK Government would require the consent of Parliament to give notice of Brexit. The headline was widely criticised as being inappropriately condemnatory and attracted numerous complaints,given that the British judiciary is independent of the Government. The court had ruled on the question of whether the Constitution of the United Kingdom permitted the government to use the royal prerogative to invoke Article 50.
Paul Michael Dacre is an English journalist and the former long-serving editor of the British tabloid the Daily Mail. He is also editor-in-chief of DMG Media,which publishes the Daily Mail,The Mail on Sunday,the free daily tabloid Metro,the MailOnline website,and other titles.
Allegra Elizabeth Jane Stratton is a British former political aide,journalist,and writer who served as Downing Street Press Secretary under Boris Johnson from November 2020 to April 2021.
Joseph Edmund Johnson,Baron Johnson of Marylebone,is a British politician and peer who was Minister of State for Universities,Science,Research and Innovation from 2015 to 2018,and from July to September 2019. A member of the Conservative Party,he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Orpington from 2010 to 2019. He currently sits in the House of Lords. His older brother,Boris Johnson,was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 2019 and 2022.
Mark Philip Sedwill,Baron Sedwill,is a British diplomat and senior civil servant who served as Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service to Prime Ministers Theresa May and Boris Johnson from 2018 to 2020. He also served as the United Kingdom National Security Adviser from 2017 to 2020. He was previously the United Kingdom's Ambassador to Afghanistan from 2009 to 2010 and the NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan in 2010. He was the Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office from February 2013 to April 2017.
Dominic Rennie Raab is a British Conservative Party politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor from September 2021 to September 2022 and again from October 2022 to April 2023. He previously served as First Secretary of State and Foreign Secretary from 2019 to 2021. Raab was Member of Parliament (MP) for Esher and Walton from 2010 to 2024.
Sir Robert Paul Gibb,known as Robbie Gibb,is a British public relations professional and former political advisor and broadcast journalist.
The Downing Street Press Secretary is an adviser to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on news media and how to manage the image of the British government to the press. The position is part of the Prime Minister's Office and involves using information on what is happening in the UK and around the world,to decide on how the Prime Minister should present his or her reaction to the media. The incumbent also advises on how to handle news stories and other information which could affect the current Prime Minister or the Ministry.
The Downing Street director of communications is the post of director of communications for the prime minister of the United Kingdom. The position is held by an appointed special adviser.
James Forsyth is a British political aide and former political journalist. After serving as political editor of The Spectator magazine since 2009,he was appointed Political Secretary to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by Rishi Sunak in 2022.
Simon Case is a British civil servant who is the current Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service since 9 September 2020,succeeding Sir Mark Sedwill.
Theresa May's tenure as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom began on 13 July 2016 when she accepted an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II to form a government after the resignation of her predecessor David Cameron in the aftermath of the European Union (EU) membership referendum,and ended upon her resignation on 24 July 2019. As prime minister,May served simultaneously as First Lord of the Treasury and as Minister for the Civil Service. May's premiership was dominated by Brexit,terrorist attacks in Westminster,the Manchester Arena and London Bridge,the Grenfell Tower fire,and the Salisbury poisonings.
Nicholas Watt is a journalist. In 2016 he became political editor of the BBC's Newsnight.
Jack Doyle is a British journalist who served as Downing Street Director of Communications from April 2021 to February 2022.
Partygate is a political scandal in the United Kingdom about gatherings of government and Conservative Party staff during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021,when public health restrictions prohibited most gatherings. The scandal contributed to Boris Johnson's downfall as Prime Minister and his resignation as an MP.
